I like Deezer. I’ve been using it and telling people about it since Spotify was insistent about being focused on chasing a politically charged content (over) investment instead of delivering quality, behavior driven content based on their algo.

It’s easy to avoid buying things from Amazon. It’s hard to avoid AWS. It would be insane to try to suss out what provider everyone that I buy stuff from uses, and their third party relationships. Regulation is better.

This isn’t holding up, time isn’t after us.

Or stop making fuel artificially inexpensive?

I’m a developer that has done a lot of work in the higher education and finance sectors. Sadly, the ‘G’ in WCAG is ‘guidelines.’ It doesn’t have teeth; there is no legislation around WCAG. I say ‘sadly’ because there really should be a solid legal framework for ensuring equal access to resources, not just loose guidelines.

The largest movement around the ADA and WCAG was about seven years ago. There were a fair amount of lawsuits brought forward against banks and credit unions since they are federally insured and regulated. Higher education was also targeted as they accept federal money. The gist of it was that the owners of the sites in question did nothing to make the sites compatible with assistive technology like screen readers or even basic navigability needs. I don’t think most of the suits were successful. They did succeed in focusing attention on the topic.

If you want a good idea how compatible a site is, this tool is excellent; but not perfect: https://wave.webaim.org

Organizations are increasingly farming out ADA compliance to companies like AudioEye (https://www.audioeye.com). AudioEye might be considered a bit pricey, but worth it when viewed through lens of it being a lot less expensive than addressing a law suit. It’s also less expensive than finding a developer that has accessibility skills on top of all the other inflated technologies that recruiters cram into a job listing.

Oh and Deezer pays even less to artists than Spotify.

I don’t think that’s accurate. Care to provide your source?

Or an upstream certificate expired.

This article centers on those driving work vehicles that their employer has installed trackers on. I know recently auto makers have been found snooping, which I don’t even have words for, but this isn’t that.

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Meanwhile, the masses are still using all the ‘services’ because they all have momentum. I’m not confident any of them can do anything bad enough to chase off their users.

Deezer ain’t bad. https://www.deezer.com

They did a Tiny Desk Concert back in the summer. They still got it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/20/1188104746/cypress-hill-tiny-desk-concert

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As a consumer, I will now forever remember that WebMD’s C Suite is most interested in “crushing their competition” and being heavy handed with their employees. I once thought that they were concerned about the betterment of societal health. This is how you lose your most performant employees.

I can’t believe they published this to a publically available platform like Vimeo. Did they already lose their Marketing executive?

Such an iconic sound. You always know when you hear ELO. You always know when you hear Jeff Lynne. There will never be enough or too much. Great track.

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I’ve hit the odd site where a menu doesn’t work the way it should, the payment form doesn’t work, overall form validation is wonky, or the captcha doesn’t work. I attribute most of these to slight nuances in javascript between browsers.

I’m a (old, grey) dev, and I’ve had to shame colleagues into testing in mobile browsers other than Chrome and Safari.

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